Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo

Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman), also known as Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf, is a 1972 Spanish horror film, the sixth in a series of 12 films about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky,^[1] played by Paul Naschy. It was later followed by a sequel, El Retorno de Walpurgis.

Plot[]

A young, wealthy Spanish landowner, Waldemar Daninsky, aka El Hombre Lobo (The Wolfman), searches for a cure to his lycanthropy. He travels to London to consult with the infamous Dr. Jekyll's grandson. The doctor prescribes a serum that transforms the werewolf into a Mr. Hyde-like personality. It is theorized that Mr. Hyde will sublimate Daninsky's werewolf self. Unfortunately, the procedure results in an even more savage monster than before.

Cast[]

• Paul Naschy as Waldemar Daninsky/Wolfman/Mr. Hyde
• Shirley Corrigan as Justine
• Jack Taylor as Dr. Henry Jekyll
• Mirta Miller as Sandra
• José Marco as Imre Kosta
• Luis Induni as Otvos
• Bernabe Barta Barri as Gyogyo, the innkeeper
• Luis Gaspar as Thurko, Otvos's thug
• Elsa Zabala as Uswika Bathory
• Lucy Tiller
• Jorge Vico
• Adolfo Thous

Production[]

The film features a classic scene wherein el Hombre Lobo transforms in an elevator, much to the horror of a nurse/passenger.^[2]

Famed Euro-horror star Jack Taylor was praised for his "wonderfully nuanced performance" as Dr. Henry Jekyll.^[3]

This was the only time that the two sets of characters, Jekyll/Hyde and man/wolfman, appeared together in the same movie.^[4]

The film's star, Paul Naschy, wrote an autobiography, which included his first encounter with the werewolf mythology in a movie theater as a young child. He described the first time he saw the 1943 Lon Chaney, Jr. classic, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man:

The lights went out and the music began. After the film had finished, I went out to the street in a trance. That very night I sat down to draw the two terrifying characters locked in their brutal combat. From that day on, Larry Talbot [the Cheney character] was my hero. I even recall that, on one occasion when my mother asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I replied, "A werewolf!"^[5]

External links[]

• Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo at IMDb
• Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo at AllMovie

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